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Cuticrusader09 posted...

Did you work at Whole Foods before Amazon took over? Was it better then?

That's an excellent question, actually. I've been there for 9 years now. It was supposed to be a bridge job, you see, but then they bumped up their hourly wage to $15/hr.(incorporating whatever money we were making over the baseline) and I love my coworkers, as much as I hate the company. I came out to 7 people before I came out to my parents, and 4 of them were current or former coworkers, including the first and second. They're flexible with hours and I'm undeniably a creature of habit. Plus, a lot of my coworkers have been super affirming since I came out.

As to an actual answer, the company had been going downhill in terms of how it treated its employees for years before Amazon bought it, and that has, if anything, accelerated what was already happening. But it was always going to go downhill the moment it went public. I'm risking doxxing myself a little here, but my store was actually prominent in the BLM unrest within the company, because one of my comrades happened to know jaboukie in passing and got retweeted by him when she took to Twitter. Just the sheer heavy-handedness and cowardice of the company's response to all that leaves a bad taste in my mouth (they described TMs wearing BLM stuff and even the company's own official statement on the matter to work as "a dress code issue").
Yes, all four of the people I mentioned above and myself were involved in all that, if you're wondering.